Already missing the infant neuro crew from #FITNG2026! Such good science, good vibes, and good times. Looking forward to next year 👶🧠🤓🌴❤️

HAPPENING SOON! 7:30pm at Las Palmas! 🕺🧠👶🌴

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG@fitngin.bsky.social · 4w ago

#FITNG2026 We’re excited to host a conference social for all attendees at Las Palmas at 7:30 TONIGHT! A great opportunity to socialize, chat science, and catch a gorgeous Panama sunset!

New paper with @drbarner.bsky.social out now in Developmental Psychology! Despite the importance of age in our social world, little is known about how children reason about it. Do children understand age as something distinct from size from an early age? 1/10 psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Very excited to share this paper, led by @ajhaskins.bsky.social ! We find that how people look around the world is stable and idiosyncratic — and that these gaze patterns are shaped in part by the conceptual priorities each person brings to a scene. 1/3 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Fantastic surprise tenure cake, made by Bill Pepe for the year end SoCal lab hang. Really fun to celebrate with (some of) the folks who made this career milestone possible - couldn’t ask for a better team ❤️

New preprint w @carenwalker.bsky.social & @drbarner.bsky.social! We test the "minimal representations" hypothesis that explains gaps in 3yos modal reasoning. Against it, we find that even 2½yos reason about mutually exclusive possibilities... when goals are clear to them. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/6

Yay for publishing null results! We didn't find an effect of *character* gender on kids' expectations or evaluations of empathy, but we did find one effect of participant gender: girls valued empathy more than boys in character evaluations. Maybe a clue about about the origins of later stereotypes?

Alexis Smith-Flores@asmithflores.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎉 New paper w/ honors student Majo Guerrero & @lindseypowell.bsky.social: 4–7-year-olds did not expect girls to be more empathic than boys, nor did they judge girls more harshly for counter-empathizing, suggesting stereotypes about empathy may emerge later in development. doi.org/10.1080/1524...

My current lab manager is heading to grad school this fall, so I'm hiring a new one (shared with Zoe Liberman)! There's one week left to apply. We hope that this experience will help prepare someone for graduate studies and/or careers in research.

Zoe Liberman@zoeliberman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Job alert! @brandonwoo.bsky.social and I are searching for a new lab manager. We are excited to add a new member to our awesome community of soc cog dev researchers! Spread the word :) Full ad here: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03106

CDS 2026 was full of excellent science and good times! A big thanks to all the speakers in the intuitive theories of care preconference, organized by @rtompkins.bsky.social -- so many new ideas and findings to think about!

This is happening tomorrow! Lorenzo, Ori, Natalie, and I will be there, talking about the conferences but also just the broader benefit to developmental science of integrating knowledge and use of behavioral and neuroimaging methods. Join us! Free registration at tinyurl.com/fitingicis

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG@fitngin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us on April 14th at 11am ET / 5pm CEST for a FIT’NG + ICIS preview of the Panama 2026 meetings: exclusive program sneak peeks, highlighting events of shared interest, and what you gain by attending both. Register: tinyurl.com/fitngicis

Our paper finding that infants infer helpers’ relationships, and not their dispositions, is now out in PNAS! Sharing in case anyone needs something to read on the way home from #CDS2026 ;) doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Lindsey Powell@lindseypowell.bsky.social · last yr.

New preprint! Led by Bill Pepe, with @brandonwoo.bsky.social and @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social. We asked if infants think helping and hindering stem from actors' dispositions (i.e. good/nice v bad/mean) or their social relationships, by testing expectations for future behavior: osf.io/preprints/ps...

a few thoughts here, premised on agreeing that a chunk of devpsych research is boring. 1) I think niche subfield conf's like CDS (and e.g. for me, BUCLD) exacerbate this, there often *is* a good reason under the hood, just not always one a trainee can quickly frame well in a 15-20' talk or poster.

Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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My lab is presenting at #cds2026. Come check it out if you are attending!

Affective Cognition Lab@affcoglab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our lab members will be presenting their talks and posters at #cds2026 (Cognitive Development Society) in Montreal this week! Come check out their amazing work!

Some great developmental science will be happening in Panama this July! Come hear more about what @infantstudies.bsky.social and @fitngin.bsky.social have planned! ☀️🇵🇦

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG@fitngin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us on April 14th at 11am ET / 5pm CEST for a FIT’NG + ICIS preview of the Panama 2026 meetings: exclusive program sneak peeks, highlighting events of shared interest, and what you gain by attending both. Register: tinyurl.com/fitngicis

Members of the SoCal lab are presenting their work at #CDS2026! Check out where to find us below

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Alexis Smith-Flores@asmithflores.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Can't wait for #CDS2026! My lab is excited to share some of our ongoing work featuring collaborations with Madison Pesowski's KIDS Lab at UFV! I hope you'll stop by and chat :)

If you’re at CDS this weekend, stop by our posters! I’m sad to miss it this year but so proud of this fantastic group ✨

Haoyu Du@preprint.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Exciting work from the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD will be at @cogdevsoc.bsky.social #CDS2026! Come chat with us about children's drawings, visual knowledge, and leveraging computational models for developmental research. www.vislearnlab.org

Join us on March 25th (3pm GMT/11am EST) for our event on: Open science practices and their application in FIT neuroimaging, featuring Dr. Brian Nosek and Dr. Lindsay Bowman. We’ll discuss open science practices for fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging. Register at: tinyurl.com/FITNG-OpenSc...

📢 We are honored to announce our Keynote Speaker: Takao K. Hensch!! 🧠 A leading expert on how early-life experience shapes neural circuits and critical period mechanisms (fitng.org/speakers/). 🤩 Don't miss the keynote and join us at the FIT'NG Annual Conference, July 10-11 in Panama 🌴 #FITNG2026

⏲️ 3 DAYS LEFT!!! 🏃‍➡️ Hurry up, submit your work now! 🌐 Posters: fitng.org/poster-oral-... 🌐 Symposium: fitng.org/symposium-su... Deadline: February 25 #FITNG2026 #Neuroscience #Neuorimaging #MRI #Brain

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Look at this great #CDS2026 preconference on the cognitive science of care that @rtompkins.bsky.social put together! If you’ll be there in Montreal, come check it out.

Rodney Tompkins@rtompkins.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Attending CDS 2026? Consider joining us at the morning pre-conference workshop on intuitive theories of care and protection in development @cogdevsoc.bsky.social

~2 weeks til the #FITNG2026 submission deadline! We're taking both individual abstracts and symposia again this year. And we have an exciting lineup of invited speakers, including Drs. Takao Hensch (keynote), Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Victoria Southgate, and Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh. Join us in Panama!

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG@fitngin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨 All abstract submissions are now open for the 2026 FIT'NG Annual Conference taking place July 10–11 in Panama City. 🗓️ Deadline for submissions: 23:59 PST on February 25, 2026 🌐 Submission website: fitng.org/poster-oral-...

~2 weeks til the #FITNG2026 submission deadline! We're taking both individual abstracts and symposia again this year. And we have an exciting lineup of invited speakers, including Drs. Takao Hensch (keynote), Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Victoria Southgate, and Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh. Join us in Panama!

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG@fitngin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨 All abstract submissions are now open for the 2026 FIT'NG Annual Conference taking place July 10–11 in Panama City. 🗓️ Deadline for submissions: 23:59 PST on February 25, 2026 🌐 Submission website: fitng.org/poster-oral-...

The Visual Learning Lab is hiring TWO lab coordinators! Both positions are ideal for someone looking for research experience before applying to graduate school. Application deadline is Feb 10th (approaching fast!)—with flexible summer start dates.

New w/ @drbarner.bsky.social! We argue that children's struggle to represent the past and future in common tests of knowledge may stem from difficulties in hypothetical reasoning about imaginary timelines, rather than a lack of knowledge about time. 1/n academic.oup.com/chidev/advan...

Back to reality: Children's early temporal reasoning applies to real but not hypothetical events

Abstract. Time words like “yesterday” and “tomorrow” are hard for children to learn, and for researchers to study, because their referents change from day

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International Congress on Infant Studies (ICIS) abstract deadline has now been extended to Friday December 12th! Don’t miss this opportunity to share your research, connect with leading scholars, and experience the unique setting of Panama City. ☀️ 🇵🇦 @infantstudies.bsky.social

Excited to share that my lab will be accepting applications for our very first PhD student to start in Fall 2026! Interested applicants can learn more about the lab here: wordpress.lehigh.edu/littlelearne... And Lehigh’s graduate program here: psychology.cas.lehigh.edu/graduate

Move over frogs, we’ve got our own spirit animal #NoKingsSanDiego

Seems like a particularly cruel change to make without warning given the stress that reviewers often put on applicants' publication record. Presumably many strong students waited based on this apparent criterion, not because they didn't already have great ideas to propose.

Kosta Boskovic@kostaboskovic.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Extremely disappointing decision from the NSF today to exclude second-year graduate students from eligibility for the GRFP. I and many other second-year grads purposely held off from applying in our first year to be able to do so now...